, 1887-02-12

ntre, tnaG Landlords VINO can auOFu W uNc
elsewhere will not live here, and that the
country does not prOSperW Some gentle
men, says the writer, We're getting up Agrl-
cultural societies and model farms. t%oIteach
the people how to use their land, to Proht
Then he truly remarkS:- ~@"A
But all will be in vain If there be not
security established for life and property.
Capital will fly the country, and it will
ever remain what it is. The first duty,
then, of the Government is to take mea-
sureS TO bring about that security. What
is the use of IL Government if it does nOtF
If firm and temperate measures will not do,
measures which will compel security ought
to he reSOrted to. The people are to be
pitied, aided, aud taught; but they must
be made to respect the law. AT present a
set of ~rutianS completely intimidate those
among the peaSantry themselves who are
respectable. 1900. Much, however, as we
may pity the people. those who panaer TO
their Ignorance, who foster their prtjudlceS.
who excite their brutali!y-thOSe who, by
a system of sOrdid agitation, for objects
which they know can never be accomplish
ell, excite and keep up the spirit Of outrage
ARE or ought to- be received with eXecra-
ton by every good citizen aS the curse and
ruin of their country.
Again and again does the writer OF these
Ibtl6IS IGCUE I'd lut MdSlCu ODtOA LAIlIlItS
and neglect of natural advantages caused
by the apathy and Incidence OF the people.
In a letter, dated from Cork, he points
ont that the sea round the coast teens
with fish, and that in SCuli Bay and Crook
haven the maCkerel are often seen over the
whole surface '~.j0&ttimg Que another" ana
absolutely running on shore to escape the
pOrpOisrS; but The people, he says, VIII
not exert themselves to net them. LII You
ask them why they do not, the answer is,
'Och, the nets want mending," or "Sure
We havn't got the nets ready" or Shy
dad, Sir, before we could get the nets out
they would he Off" while the Cornishmen
across the Channel realize large sums
by catching the fish in the sight Of cheese
starving people. AS illustrating the diff
Guilty of getting the people to improve, he
tells a story OF a tenant who applied for Il
farm to Colonel Robinson as agent for the
Irish Waste Land Improvement Company,
ON an estate bought by them in county Gal
way where the people ''miSerably poor, dwell
ling in turf novels" aud "grrGn crops and
the value Of hay and manure were un-
known" The tenant In question, being
told that he would have to follow the rules
Of the COMPANY and cultivate his land on
the system laid down by them, scratched
his head and said, "Sure. yer honour, if
| pay YOU The rent mlyn't | cultivate the
farm as | likeN TIereupOn Colonel q
inSon endeavoured to point out that it
would be TO his interest 10 farm in a pro-
per manner, but the mars anSwer was,
"Sure, If Pm satisfied widpraiies and ul ter
milk you may be the same wild the rent."The
Colonel tried again toc0nvince him that his
system Of cultivation was bad and unprO-
ftable, and asked him, "If you did not
know your road and wanteda guide would
you follow this gentleman pointing to one
beside him) with a bandage over his eyes,
or me, with the full use Of my eyesight 7"
"Sure, and I'll follow the gentleman" was
the answer. "Why so ?" Because he
couldn't see to lead me asthray."
Repeal Of the Union, says the writer, is
declared by SO-called ''patriots" to be the
only remedy for the distress and poverty
of the people. A Parliament in College
green and 'Irelaud for the Irish" are the
things wanted to set all to rights. In de-
scribing the city Of Cork, he says there is a
Chamber Of Commerce, which, 'by an odd
kind of contradiction, is in fact on all or
binary occasions a political discussion shop
on the question of Repeal" and he not
unnaturaily wonders how the extern
sion of commerce can be promoted by re-
peaIing the union with the most CONNER
ciaI country on the globe, and by shut
ting up Ireland, one of the least CONNER.
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